former san francisco police crime lab technician accused of stealing couldcon. 61-year-old deborah madden faces maximum sentence of four years in prison if convict. prosecutors say her theft of cocaine in the labs drug analyst unit led to the closure of facility and caused hundreds of criminal cases to be dismissed. city of san jose searching for a new police chief as department struggles to cope with increasing crime and cut backs. san jose mercury news reports that top priority should be ganging back a gang sussing were unit was that disbanded two years ago. some police officers say the department is stretched too thin to re-assign patrol officers to the unit. in the first sing months of the year the city has seen double digit spikes in burglaries, robberies, rapes and auto theft. >>> bizarre accident at san francisco airport has claimed the life of a work there are. happened around 5:30 yesterday morning and sfo spokesman tells us the worker with was driving a cafeteria vehicle on a service road when that driver crashed into a parked private jet. the crash sheered off the top of the ve